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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!
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By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.
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Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.
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